Dear Parents,

The 2021 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature recently ended. Our school is a
member of Citizens for Educational Choice (CEC). We need to participate in an
electronic advocacy tool designed to help parents of nonpublic school students connect
with and influence their state legislators. Parents in our schools should sign up for
this tool right away in order to have your voice heard at the State Capitol in Baton
Rouge. Please register at the CEC website www.louisianacec.org.

The first time you do this the system will ask you to fill out a user profile with your name,
street address, city, state, zip code, and email address. The system needs your zip
code in order to determine your local legislators. The system will then electronically
address the email you will be sending to them. Your name and address will appear at
the bottom of the email. The Privacy Policy on the website clearly notes that none of
your information will be given to any other entity, either by CEC or the software vendor.

This tool is called Voter Voice and is very easy to use. Once you have registered on the
CEC website, you will receive Legislative Alerts from CEC's lobbyist, Tom Costanza,
during the legislative session. The alert will ask you to contact your local legislator
(Senator or Representative) which you will do by clicking on an electronic link.

It is very important that the legislator reading the email know that you actually live in his
or her district. They know through their campaign work what streets are in their district.
The email will look like it came directly from you, thereby maximizing its impact on the
legislator. CEC's name will not be shown on the email the legislator receives from you.
You will only receive three of these action alerts per legislative session. Legislators
want to hear from you. The entire email process will only take you 5 minutes, and
you will be working effectively at increasing the monies your school receives
from the State (by increasing the Required Services funding), as well as defeating
bad bills that would hurt our schools and your children.

Please join CEC's Voter Voice advocacy network by registering at
www.louisianacec.org. It will only take you a few minutes!